Chapter 4: 1.4 Crazy Train I

     Wolf catches back up to them and Jack looks back, giving him a nod. “What’s the plan, Sarah?”

     Red is walking with her hands curled into white knuckled fists. “We have to stop her,” she says.

     “Yeah, I get that. I mean, what’s our next move.”

     “I—I just don’t know yet.”

     “You two really expect me to help with this?” Wolf asks. “How am I supposed to help with anything if I don’t even know what’s going on?”

     Jack looks back to Red and she gives him a nod. Jack sighs, then turns back to Wolf. “This isn’t actually our world; it’s hers. You and I are from a story book, and she brought us over to her world.”

     “Jack! That’s not relevant. I meant, tell him about the old hag!”

     “Wait,” Wolf exclaims. “What do you mean, not our world? What the hell does that even mean?”

     Jack shakes his head. “Forget I said that. What you need to know is that Red and her grandmother have the ability to open doorways into other worlds, but Red’s isn’t as powerful. Red can only open doors at our location while her grandmother can open doors long distance. Given that her grandmother can track Red’s portal device, her grandmother tends to open portals of trouble where ever we go.”

     “You can’t expect me to just forget that you basically said I’m a fictional character. How am I supposed to take that? I mean, how can you say that I’m not real?”

     “Listen pup,” Red barks. “We can’t afford to waste time on your existential crisis. Jack just told you that the hag can track me in this world so it’s only a matter of time before she sends something worse after us.”

     Wolf slouches and looks away from her. “I’m not a pup,” he says over his shoulder.

     “Well, you’re acting like one so start giving me reasons to believe otherwise.” A tear opens next to the roadside, then another, and another. Apes from a distant land take notice of the doorways and quickly approach the portals. Red looks at the doors, then shakes her head. She reaches back and draws her katana. “Nope. I’m not fighting a bunch of intelligent, militarized apes. As her blade leaves the scabbard, a trail of light-blue follows the blade. She slices at the air and a tear opens ahead of them.

     She passes into a new world.

     Jack and Wolf see her step through and onto a moving train. “Quickly,” Jack yells back to Wolf. The portal is stationary on a moving train so a roar of screeching metal and whipping wind rushes out of the tear. “She’ll need to close it soon.” Jack shields his eyes and steps through, onto the train.

     Wolf looks back to the other portals that are now being crowded by apes. They test the doors, sticking hands through, then heads. Wolf looks back to the train and sprints through, the portal closing behind him.

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